in india oh she's available in the movie going to join the hotel rooms a movie that's a great way to go to the grand imperial truly towards west coast coromandel new kind of let's let's go socialist good to see don't need to go publicly and run this in the kernel was her job as used to retreat. today's news on the week's top stories from our t.v. recovery crews start a somber task of lifting a ship that rapidly went down and of all the river last sunday taking the nearly one hundred thirty lives. the operation to raise the sun from both gary has begun hopefully providing arms to the grieving relatives and investigators are bringing all the details from the recovery site and just some of the. proper amount of sorry saga to tycoon public we need somebody lives save his stricken empire as well allies leave and the police close in on both sides of the atlantic. losing

battles but winning the war of the libyan rebels are in foreign recognition and access to gadhafi assets but there are fires that struggle to get to grips on the ground. plus the west empty wallet as america in the euro zone race to save their collapsing economies in the face of soaring debt a lot of credit scores. ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t r marina joshie within the next few hours the operation will begin to lift the cruiser which sank last sunday in the volga river it's still unclear why the boat went down quickly dragging half of those on board to their deaths artie's on barton reports a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they the flower was income tools a testament to the children among those. drowned in the pleasure boat the belgariad

sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year she never had arguments with anyone sure was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror even just as our people were basically buried alive in china matthew coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape and many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son and the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for

the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw the broken window and the sailor started pushing people out through it at that moment on the surface and then i saw the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out. meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil

fuel that was leaking from the sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. found the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question that cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses and people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management who forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had neede and been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators

repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal thora to say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people it was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of bounds including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made into the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reach the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person but reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. all the passengers were shocked there were about seventy people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding or yelled for help i saw the police passers by in a different direction towards cars on. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has

now started but with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims and what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of voidable shipping disasters. the captain of a ship that saved seventy seven people from drowning in the volga river has been talking to r.t. what's his interview right here and around twenty minutes. as you've been following the intense search and recovery operation over the past seven days you can stay in touch with what's happening by visiting our website r.t. dot com or our you tube channel and we're also posting developments on our twitter stream and facebook page. it.

is. the. british government is denying it was too close to river murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meanings with murder executives in the past year murdered has spent the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in british newspapers and meeting a family of a young victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media moguls now deployed p.r. groups to rescue the news corp's reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical methods there is

a gap on britain's news shelves this sunday after murdoch hastily x. the best selling news of the world has claimed swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and death soldiers' families as lauren with reports of watershed moment for the uneasy relationship between britain's auditions and press . but every media outlet in town d.v.d. redo even the scary races when thought imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot it's own no rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the pope . have had since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they

promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy. american power and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. short to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money could have transferred some of the profits from. investing in the times for example or the guardian or the daily telegraph it would welcome that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch

papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. you. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr byrne this thought it was the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right. as it is possible to control the media because of rupert murdoch murdoch. found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him

for years and this time they may have succeeded it's just a scene it sets a consolidate control over a lot section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it. nor of its artsy. khan and russell transcript from the voice of russia radio station in washington d.c. says the scandals driving force is the public's outrage at targeting innocent victims some of this information has been in the public domain for years simply the of the fact that they were hacking into some celebrities but you know for a while the public was all those are celebrities that's kind of fair game i guess or they didn't you know maybe they were reading the news that much you know once or once it was you know this poor girl that they were hacking into her phone i mean that's when it when it really hit the fan and and that's why i mean that's why the british government also has to be called to account for their own actions and their

own kind of i don't want to necessarily say coverups but at the very least their acceptance of the way that it was going i mean there was just a lot of public pressure i think in a lot of public in a massive lead towards the collusion in the breaking of the law you know just just extreme ethical violation so i think it's the public and that's the reason why this is really blowing up finally. plenty more have including a story of injustice and survival to report on an ancient arab community that's been lined up as a luxurious israeli resort almost half a century after palestinians were forced out. libya's rebels became the legitimate power holders in the country in the eyes of more nations after the u.s. and more than thirty other countries recognize them on friday at a diplomatic meeting in istanbul the alliance of western and arab nations working on the crisis announced it would deal with the opposition until an interim authority is in place the recognition by the contact group also gives the rebels

access to billions of dollars of cauchy's frozen assets in u.s. banks but political commentator ted rall says the money and status won't change the situation on the ground. this is really a radical shift from an international student the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in accountable that isn't in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there which in the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had cover in kabul and the joint diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's always just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing it's a bizarre situation if the u.s.

knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi around ghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still because the u.s. is an amazing bit of shipping skits full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right. really going to have. but high level recognition of the rebels may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended with heavy casualties among the opposition as any additional reports its start france is now trying to talking tap it with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to gadhafi. if you look up. the check. book says like bragging will destroy their reported lives they're often wrong and gets a nasty surprise i. french foreign minister should

pay posted fraud's would libya in quotes days or weeks the wars into a fourth month and the final round inside the sarkozy with his western allies seem short little opponents fighting back well it's not just an embarrassment for sarkozy and some embarrassment for all nato for the whole west paris even admits libya's rebels but it's on some somalia went to libya for training within the last two or three years that's documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of the rebel groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases of it we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the u.n. votes on foreign intervention in the country.

and other. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every one military person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending troops but the experts predict is the only way you know it's a break the libyan deadlock the moves the splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of cheap italy invading libya was a mistake. vote. bring in libya to pay said the latest troops killed support siggy lover of lloyd lee diplomat speak for openly. with elections just annoying months away so voices that a successful war could bryza ricks his chills is instead one paper writes libya's

becoming the slow motion call crutch for france's deeply unpopular president sarkozy's a jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into a marathon. see paris and a few minutes we ask if one gaffe can do americans afghan after how many guys have brothers killed by his own guard records and how it puts the u.s. on intact like the taliban. the clock is ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring dat congress needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling to avoid defaulting and president obama wants parties to nor they are differences to. avert armageddon the leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's triple a credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk the u.s.

could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively economists dr roger of on hand more says american politicians can't comprehend solutions to the deficit. there's a personality conflict between the majority leader and the president which is quite unique and this has been taken into the public eye when you have discussion once that happens and trust is lost between leaders it's far more difficult to secure an agreement behind the scenes if you cut spending you're going to also impede economic growth because the government is one of the largest employers if you bring troops home and stop the wars you also have a problem with employment as servicemen and women come home these are classic economic problems what's required in the u.s. is a drastic program of infrastructure development and public jobs to guarantee wages and on interest loans for average americans if italy defaults for instance in europe it will be impossible for northern europe to bail out italy that will take

the u.s. over if the dollar significantly loses value when the u.s. is unable to help europe that will in turn take the u.s. down the japanese no more have do not have sufficient liquidity to help this time around as they did in two thousand and eight the euro is intrinsically we the one is not a competitor for the dollar the ruble stands to be fairly stable given russia standing as a major energy producer a natural resource giant on the world scene so the ruble should remain relatively stable the dollar however has nothing to go down against except the prank and if you look at the dollar in the franc that monetary relationship is an all time low and that portends trouble for the future the best two currencies probably other norwegian krone in the source frame at this point gold is over traded and as we saw in two thousand and eight there can be a paradoxical drop in the price of gold during a market market crisis breaking on gold is a highly risky proposition. things are

a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone heading into oblivion rounds are proving tough seventy billion euro cuts package to avoid a death. it's the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile eight out of ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive and the other financial crisis economics professor patrick meant for some e.u. countries may have to accept the thought as wealthier nations no longer wants to pay for your costly rescue. i think we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe in the north would not pass stress tests if these stress tests included the possibility of sovereign default because of course they've got loads of greek and portuguese and spanish debt and so there was never any question but one of the reasons why it might be in germany's interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think that

the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather by their own buying if they have to then keep on giving money to greeks who may never be able to give it back to them so there's no bail really in prosperity by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be default. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world news the police used tear gas and shot rounds into the air to disperse a crowd who torched a police station in the capital a clash followed an incident on friday when security forces fired tear gas to break up a demonstration in a mosque in the city many tunisians remain unhappy with the way interim leaders are ruling the country since january is revolution that ousted president ben ali. egypt's foreign minister has resigned ahead of a massive reshuffle spurred by renewed public protests it only been in the job for

a month but the interim prime minister has been forced to make changes after widespread anger over the government's record crowds return to cairo as many believe little change ever taught since president mubarak was ousted. the u.s. first humanitarian delivery for somalia's drought victims has arrived just over a week since the ban was lifted islamised insurgents which ruled large parts of somalia imposed restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling them as a muslim that changed after more than ten million people became affected by the food crisis as a result of eastern africa's wars drought in decades. the taliban's calling the assassination of the afghan president's half brother its biggest achievement in a decade the kind of hard province chief was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday journalist and author valentine says the death is a blow to the u.s. led war effort. he was a power broker provided

a lot of stability here the heart which of course is one of the key provinces yeah yeah yeah is there. a place we're already in is growing where a lot of people look his absence will not affect the drug trafficking how do you bother people who are going to be and his absence first more and what his role was as a conduit. so he was actually very political you or. the you were also the cia or somebody who could. represent their interests here in negotiations with the taliban and he was considered a very hurried towards the goal. for the united states he was someone who represented you were holes rather. he said so this is a big coup for the trial they will have to deal with. with his hardline for oil. and the struggle for a land rights in israel there is one place that's still

a no go area fifty years ago it was a thriving palestinian community but it was driven out and now israel's i ended up as a luxury getaway artie's policy or has the story. and this sort of the mountains of jerusalem are the remains of a once bustling arab community only the memories of those who once lived here have survived intact i feel you know and he had me come back and simply. my village. since the spring. my car there. there could have among the cacti and fit trees but in one nine hundred forty eight just before the state of israel was declared his family evacuated unlike the hundreds of villages that disappeared in forty eight and sixty seven most of the original houses of lift are still here so they really were headed

. and charged with probe the will to do the whole caboodle hold. our mother took us inside the room in a corner and then the period so as to bring. us here cook was one of seven hundred thousand palestinians who became a refugee in one nine hundred forty eight his childhood home was quickly absorbed by the newly established jewish state almost every palestinian who lived in london for nicholas if he was forced to do this because he was a year than he is considered as absentee and he lost the property in the early one nine hundred fifty s. jews moved into the abandoned homes like your new york audience parents they were also refugees fleeing arab countries we life had become dangerous after israel was created these really government sent him to live a gift or your lease is to prevent arab owners from returning when the current here

. live here near without water without electricity came here to jordan and for them this memory here is the very and for the most of the original two hundred jewish families lived because life in the mountains was difficult and the government was slow to develop the area no one has lived in is how those for forty six years what happened means are stone walls we wild flowers and grass now grow litter is empty. and it's untrue that emptiness that the israeli government now plans to build more than two hundred luxury homes a ship hotel shops and a museum insisting they'll preserve the area's history we will find ourselves with a neighborhood where history has been concert there will also be documentation and the story will be told of who lived there as we do in all the neighborhoods of jerusalem but maybe like you could say it's palestinian land and a double injustice. to destroy our.

yanni. forward. three will came from anywhere in this weird way i can in my village and come back and going back to my freedom and living. with. me. and. so i'm going for palestinians lifter is a physical the mind of injustice and survival but for a fair number of israelis it's an eyesore and they'd rather not be reminded of what happened here every time they climbed into jerusalem policy r.t. lifter. other brings us up to date here in our community back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments. forty

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